Sometimes during a remodeling project, things can feel a little overwhelming. You begin to feel a little like this guy at National Harbor just outside Washington, D.C. It has occasionally felt that way with the SoMoToHo kitchen project – particularly when we got a weekend of record rainfall and the (new) roof began leaking in […]
While having light and running water in the SoMoToHo remodeled kitchen isn’t nearly as impressive as this display from the Magic Fountain of Montjuic in Barcelona, it’s a pretty important step in the process. It started with the installation of the countertops. Here’s a shot of the top to the left of the sink. As […]
This building in Brugge, Belguim was built sometime in the 1500s (yeah, I know – that may have been the date of construction but those windows are new; and lovely). The panels above the three windows on the second story show scenes of everyday life.The one on the far right shows a kitchen scene. I […]
Natural light. There really isn’t any substitute. Here is a building that we stumbled into in Budapest, I believe, in which the entire ceiling was a skylight.And here is the auditorium of the public house in Prague, where natural light rules, despite the prevalence of available electric illumination: Before we get to the SoMoToHo, I […]
The pics above show bamboo scaffolding on a building under construction in Hong Kong. No metal. No wood. Just bamboo. Construction methods in the SoMoToHo are not so exotic. Wood framing; sheet rock; tape, bed and texture; PVC pipe. The destruction is by no means over. But there has been a turn toward construction. You […]
I thought I knew how to blog remotely. I set up the draft before we left, picked out the pictures and added them to the media cache for the draft and believed that it was all waiting there in the cloud, or something like that. I was wrong. I was going to show you that […]
